POLAR BEARS IN FIREWEED

My images of polar bears in fireweed went viral and were widely published after My Modern Met magazine featured them in an interview with me. They later named one of them as being in the top 50 from around the word that they had published that year.

Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Sometimes they can be seen munching on blossoms one at a time!